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Activist Issues- Telecommunications (FreePress.net) |
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"Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy" (2004) (New America Foundation) |
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"The Citizen's Guide to the Airwaves" (2003) (New America Foundation) |
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Columbia Institute for Tele-Information |
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Columbia U. Center for Telecom Research |
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Community Telecom Toolkit ("Ten Steps to Building a More Diverse, Responsive, and Participatory Media System at the Local Level") (Center for Digital Democracy) |
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Federal Communications Commission homepage |
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Free Press: media reform through outreach, activism, lobbying, and networking ("a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system.") (includes beginner's guide to media reform, media ownership charts, action alerts, daily newsstories) |
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Sean Siochru et al. Global Media Governance: A Beginner's Guide (2002) |
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Reed Hundt "The Telecom Act, the Internet, and Higher Education" (2000) (Educause) |
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Jones Media Information and Technology Encyclopedia |
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"No Bargain: Comcast and the Future of Workers' Rights in Telecommunications" (American Rights at Work report) (pdf) |
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Ben Scott (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "The Politics and Policy of Media Ownership" (2004) (pdf) |
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McChesney, Robert (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) The Problem of the Media: US Communications Politics in the Twenty-first Century (2004) (Preface) |
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Telecommunications Readings and Articles (Daniel Chandler, U. Wales) |
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Telecommunications Industry Organizations and Associations (about.com) |
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Telecom Digest (Patrick A. Townson) |
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The Telecom History Page (Webb & Assocs.) |
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Telecommunications Industry News |
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Telecom Information Resources on the Internet (Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, U. Michigan) |
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Telecommunications Act of 1996 (FCC) |
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Telecommunications Industry Assoc. -- Communications Online |
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Telecommunications Magazine |
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Telecoms Virtual Library (a free index of telecommunications companies and currently holds 8343 links . . .part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library and has been hosted by Analysys, one of the world's leading telecommunications consulting and research firms, since 1994") |
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Telephone history page (Chuck Eby) |
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Web History of Telecommunications (created by students of Communications Engineering at Fachhochschule für Technik Esslingen, Germany) |
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Well Connected- Tracking the Broadcast, Cable, and Telecommunications Industries (includes searchable database of ownership of all radio and tv stations in the U.S.) (The Center for Public Integrity) |
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Wireless Unleashed ("advocates freeing up low-frequency spectrum globally for wireless broadband and unlicensed applications") |
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